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Title: O. Morozova papers
Date (inclusive): 1888-1968
Collection Number: 2001C11
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, and photographs, relating to Russian literature, Russian émigré affairs, and post-World War II Russian
refugees in the Philippines.
Creator:
Morozova, O. (Olʹga), 1877-1968
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired.
[Identification of item], Olga Morozova Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1877 July 3 | Born, Khar'kov, Russia |
| 1895 | Established an elementary school near Khar'kov |
| 1901 April 27 | Married Iona Morozov |
| 1911 | Moved to Semipalatinsk, Russia |
| 1915 | Appointed assistant director for army meat supply for Western Siberia |
| 1920 | Iona Morozov killed in Civil War |
| 1932 | Author, Nevozvratnoe |
| 1934 | Author, Sud'ba |
| 1949 | Evacuated to Tubabao refugee camp, Philippines |
| 1951 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1958 | Author, Kak pomoch' bol'nomu cheloveku |
| 1968 January 1 | Died, Los Angeles, California |
| 1984 | Sud'ba reprinted |
Ol'ga Morozova was born Ol'ga Kolesova in Khar'kov on 3 July 1877 (N. S.), the daughter of the principal of the Khar'kov Agricultural
School. Graduating from the Khar'kov women's institute in 1895, she established, with her own funds, a primary school for
peasant children on the outskirts of Khar'kov. In the same year, she began a career as a journalist in various local papers
and journals, also authoring a number of popular books on agricultural issues. She married the livestock specialist Iona M.
Morozov and moved with him to Semipalatinsk in 1911, turning her energies to relief and nursing work with the Russian Red
Cross during the First World War. In 1918 she established a 50-bed hospital in Semipalatinsk.
The Bolshevik advance in 1919 forced her to leave Semipalatinsk with her son Boris (her husband and a daughter, evacuating
Omsk with Admiral Kolchak, were killed; another daughter, Vera, escaped by other means). Living in various towns and cities
in China in the early 1920s, she finally moved to Tientsin in 1928, enduring a lengthy trek through the Gobi desert. It was
in Tientsin that Morozova wrote most of the novels that gained her a literary reputation, such as Sud'ba, Nevozvratnoe, and
Nora. Like many of her compatriots who evacuated China in the late forties and early fifties, Ol'ga Morozova spent some time
in the Tubabao refugee camp before being admitted to the United States in 1951, an experience she chronicled in unpublished
memoirs. Morozova died in Los Angeles on 1 January 1968.
Olga Morozova was a novelist who published several works in China in the 1930s. This collection contains her rare and unpublished
writings, including reminiscences of Tubabao, a camp in the Philippines for Russian displaced persons from the Far East, and
collected materials for a biographical dictionary of prominent Russian émigrés, entitled "Kul'turnye sily rossiiskoi emigratsii."
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Russians -- United States
Russians -- China
Refugees
Russians -- Philippines